All PyCon 2011 talks and tutorials announced

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40 points·jnoller··6 comments

I mentioned this on Twitter but I'll repeat it here: everyone who submitted a talk and didn't get in (about half of the 200 people) is getting personalized feedback, not a form letter.

I imagine this encourages them to submit next year, but is also one of the reasons PyCon is a classy conference and Jesse an awesome dude.

As an author of papers that have been rejected, I can say that such feedback is unheard of, and would have been greatly appreciated.

And yes, Jesse is an awesome dude. I worked with him for a few years, and highly recommend the experience.

Not only that, but the selection committee asked for clarification and gave extremely detailed feedback on the talk proposals; I think my proposal went through two major edits/reworks. Hopefully this will mean better talks all around.

Other conference planners take note!

Looks like a great lineup. The idea of the extreme talks is a great one. I really like the idea of intense, no bullshit knowledge transfer.

I hope that Djangocon has a similar track this year, assuming it goes as well as I think it will at Pycon.

This is definitely a concept we'll explore for DjangoCon (assuming it's as successful as I expect it to be), the one issue is DjangoCon only had 2 tracks last year, it's a lot harder to have 50% of your talks at any given time dedicated to "very advanced stuff" then it is to do 20%.

I also suspect — can't prove, but suspect — that there's a higher percentage of "experienced" PyCon attendees than DjangoCon attendees. Most Django developers are fairly new to the platform — heck, the platform's fairly new, relative to Python. So I think there's greater interest in beginner/intermediate material at DjangoCon than at PyCon.

Just a guess, though.

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